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Winter is on its way in the northern hemisphere. Make sure to clear all those things that are meant to channel water: culverts, ditches, eaves, and the like. An ounce of prevention saves a ton of rock fill.

If memory serves, this damage happened on Boggs Road 400 above Spikenard Creek near John’s Trail. (see map below) I and a volunteer went out in a torrential rainstorm opening culverts, clearing inside ditches, with shovels. We just couldn’t be everywhere at once on the state forest’s 26 miles of dirt roads.

Like this:

This Tyrannosaurus rex display is in the Valley Life Sciences building at the University of California, Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology. I get to see it every time I go to the library housed in the VLSB when I research Lowdermilk articles.